Shadowing Practice: How to Make Money So Fast It Feels Haram - Learn English Speaking with Video

Assalamu alaikum.

At 19 years old, I was making more money than my math teacher, my English teacher, and my three other teachers all combined.

The crazy thing is my family thought what I was doing was halam because of how fast the money was coming in.

Alhamdulillah, it was all halal.

Actually, I did all of that while still going to class eight hours a day, while having no capital to start.

So I couldn't hire people to do stuff for me and while not compromising my deal, Alhamdulillah, which is the most important point.

And I'm doing this video today because I'm tired of all the gurus lying

and giving so much fluff about making money online.

So by the end of the video, you know why people spend money, where to find people that spend a lot of money

and how to take money from people that spend a lot of money that you can have a lot of money to.

Now, if you want to make money online, the first thing you need to understand is why people spend money and people spend money for three reasons.

The first one is when they have a painful problem.

Something is so painful that they want it to be fixed right now.

Painful problems are actually the best ways of taking people's money because when a problem is painful, people will just care about you fixing it.

They don't care about how you're going to fix it.

They don't care about when you're going to fix it.

They don't care about anything.

They just care about you fixing it.

The other things are details, but the main thing they look for is can you fix it?

And to detect if a problem is painful enough, the first answer that people give you is yes.

Whenever you offer them the solution to their painful problem, they don't start asking questions.

They say yes, and then they ask questions.

It's the best way of selling people.

I'm gonna talk about it in a minute.

Now, if you offer someone a solution and they don't say yes directly, it's a why not purchase.

It's a conveniency.

It's where people are like, yeah, if X, Y, and Z and these ones are just based on the prices

because you are a conveniency the only thing they look for

is for the cheapest price where you have actually most of the guys selling services online

and that are not critical for businesses to survive i'll talk about it in a second

but just so you know this is the red zone

that you want to absolutely avoid

because this is the biggest trap now the last reason why people spend money is for status it's

when they answer yes but only if it's this one

because here with status purchases they don't care about what the

product does they care about the feeling how you make them look like

but can only be done by the business once they have

experience is on all the research it's still big businesses

that set up stuff for status they make insane amount of money

but it's super hard to enter there so it's good

if you're rich a big trap when you're broke

and you're just beginning summary if you're rich already you can go ahead

and do this if not you need to sell on paint

but no one should actually be here you're not sticky you're the first one to get fired

when things messes up you do not want to be here now

that you understood that paint is the absolute best vehicle

when it comes to selling let me just stop you from making the worst mistake of your life, which is selling the process instead of selling the outcome.

I see everyone make this mistake

when they're trying to make money is talk about how they're

going to help people instead of saying what's going to happen when you help people.

Just look at airlines.

No airlines talk about how dry the food is, how small the seat inside the plane is going to be, the child behind you that's going to kick your chair.

They never talk about that.

What they say is once you land in Dubai, it'll be 35 degrees, there'll be food from 50 different countries

and all of that stuff and they talk about the outcome even yourself

when you're purchasing it you're not thinking about the process you're thinking about what happens

when you buy the thing and that's the biggest mistake everyone does i hear

so many copywriters so many video editors

so many service providers across the board talking about how they

do stuff instead of what their stuff does for the client and

that is the worst mistake everyone does you don't write emails

you help people make money through emails you don't edit videos you help people go viral by editing videos.

And now lastly, people actually don't even look into the logistics when the program is super painful.

So you actually just need to not even talk about the logistic and just talk about the outcome.

That would be enough for them to be convinced.

That's where you want to be selling people who are in pain.

Now the question is where do I find people that are in pain?

Here is where I give you an exercise.

It's called open your eyes.

The simplest way to find people that are in pain is exactly like finding water in the desert.

The best thing you can do is just sit down, wait for Nani more to come and just follow him.

So you're gonna sit down, wait for people to spend money and see where the money goes.

And this is super, super important.

I'm giving you a cheat code.

I never heard anyone talk about it is follow the expenses.

And the first thing you can do yourself is open your bank app right now

and track all the money you're spending

and categorize it depending on would you have bought it if it was 10 times the price?

If yes, that is a pain problem.

Would you have bought it if it was twice the price

or half the price and you still say no or you regret buying it?

That is a why not purchase.

And the other one, would you have not bought it?

Did you like the outcome that this thing gave you?

Yes, then this is a status purchase.

You wanna stick to the painful ones and see everywhere that you spend money where you would have done it anyway.

Now, if you don't have a lot of money and you still want to understand and see where people spend money, you want to look for people that have money and see where they're spending money.

And to tell you who has money, it's not rich people, it's actually businesses.

Because people see everything they spend as an expense, where businesses see everything they spend as an investment.

So they would be much more open to buying your services because that would help them make more money.

So where to find people that have money?

You look for businesses and you open your eyes on where they spend money.

Now, what can you sell to them that would help them?

Mainly is three things most of the time when it comes to businesses.

They spend money to market to more people, spend money to sell more.

That's where you optimize for more sales, you get closers, you get sales distance in.

And the last one is when you help them deliver on the guys that is sold already.

Deliver to more people or deliver a better service to their people

so that later they can have easier marketing because they have case studies

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and they can make more sales because they have more proof and more trust when it comes to their product.

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Now I know you clicked on this video

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because you want practical advices to make money and I know you're gonna start asking me but specifically where do I search?

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So if you want to start a local business you can start looking on Google Maps.

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You just have to segment businesses in different categories based on what the business is.

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That would be for example selling to restaurants in New York

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and now if you have over 100 businesses inside your segmentation you need to create a sub-segment

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so that you can have around 50 to 100 people

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that you can target and then you can learn to fix their problems

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and fix it for more people and that's how you can create

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and scale a business now

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if you want to do the same stuff online i cannot

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give you a direct way of looking for people you have to practice the exercise i gave you before

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which is opening your eyes

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and looking for opportunities whenever you see an ad someone creating

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content e-com store whenever anyone is selling anything online there is money

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that is being made so there is money

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that is being spent look for where they are spending money

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and just like you segmented you do the same thing online So you're going to look for people selling courses.

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And now that may be a bit too broad.

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So you can look for Muslims selling courses.

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Just look online, open your eyes.

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And whenever you see anyone generating money, he's running a business and you can sell him something.

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And now a little pro tip, because here locally you can just go and drive to the people and pitch them live, which is what I advise you to do instead of just calling them online.

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You can't really drive to people's house.

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What you want to be doing is do calls, outreach, is reach out to them directly, sending them a message, whether that be an email,

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a DM, LinkedIn message, whatever to something to touch them on in their pain point

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and where you can help them with and offer them your solution.

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The biggest mistake people do when they do cold outreach is

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that they think there is already a first language barrier because the guy doesn't know you.

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So if you say stuff, he's gonna interpret it in different ways.

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Whereas if you know someone already and it's a warm conversation, whatever you say, he's gonna understand it because he knows you.

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What you must do when you do cold outreach is send warm messages.

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What that means is you're gonna talk to them like you know them

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and like you understand them because you should understand them

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if you're trying to sell them something

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but the main thing is talking to them about their pains in a way

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that shows you understand their pain because people buy

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when they feel understood and

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if you send a cold dm it's like a copy-pasted message

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you don't mention anything specific about them there's no way the guy is buying from you anytime soon

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so send warm dms to co-prospects

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and you're gonna to close on these inshallah now how to take their money is just sales

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and to do so we're going to use a three-step framework

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when we're going to start by locating the pain then we're going to evaluate the pain

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and the last step is going to be making them an offer using what we found by locating the pain

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and evaluating the pain.

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So now you're looking online, you're browsing on Google Maps and you find something you kind of enjoy, you kind of think has money there and you saw them spending money somewhere.

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What you want to be doing is start by segmenting the spending in different categories.

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Marketing, it's where you're trying to grab people to see me, it's just eyeball.

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Sales is where those eyeballs, you're trying to convert them into money.

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And the last one is delivery, is you got guys seeing you, You got them their credit cards, but now deliver on what you promised them.

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Like we said, we're going to try and locate the pain.

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So let's take a random business.

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All right, we're taking a restaurant.

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We're analyzing a restaurant and trying to locate some pain.

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There's money to be made in any kind of businesses.

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What I'm going to show here is also applicable to an agency, guys setting a course, an actual physical business, to a gym, to every single thing.

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You just need to look for these three elements, see which one is lacking the most, and then help them fix it.

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So I'm going to look at marketing.

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Let's say the restaurant is running content.

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Just taking some pictures of the food and posting some stories sometimes.

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Now, when it comes to the sales for the restaurant to make them more sales

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or to make sure the guys that come in actually end up buying something.

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Usually this one is fine, by the way, for restaurants.

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Otherwise, they would fix it already.

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Now, let's say on the delivery side of things, let's say they hired one of the best chefs in the area and they have pretty good reviews, which is about 4.6.

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It could be improved, but let's see which one is the best.

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Having a look at this, if you have no idea what you can improve on, just ask yourself, if I double one of them, which one would make the most sense?

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For example, on the delivery side of things, if I double the rating, I get it from 4.6 to 4.8 because they're just missing 0.4 to get to 5.

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I get it to 4.8, which would that be a crazy outcome?

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Not too sure.

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Even if I double the amount of reviews, not too sure that'll change a crazy thing.

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You don't really care about 4.6, 4.8.

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it's about 4.5 year I'll buy it.

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Now they already have good pictures for the sales and you can ask the guys inside

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out of how many people that come in the restaurant how many end up buying something.

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It's really where that someone comes in a restaurant and they just leaves and says, nah, nah, nah, I don't wanna buy it.

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I got scared away.

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Because again, they would fix it.

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It's easy to see.

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What you wanna help them with as a guy coming from the outside is the marketing side of things.

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So now that you realize that the department that needs the most help is the marketing department,

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you're gonna try and figure out what you can do to improve it and how much would that be worth to them?

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Usually what I like to do is run a free test or run a sample if you have no experience.

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So that would just be you trying out some stuff and just showing them, yeah, all right, let me just try and run some ads and let me try and get you 10 customers in.

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It's on me, it's free.

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Let me just try it out and see what happens.

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From the sample, you get the value added.

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So that gives you a clear idea of what you've done and how helpful it was.

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If they say, yeah, we've got 10 guys from your flyers, They all bought something about, you know, 30 bucks for the meal.

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That's 300 bucks worth of value added.

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Anything below that is what you could have charged to get them those results.

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Obviously, there's profit margins and everything that goes in there, but that's not what you should care about.

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We'll talk about it when we make the offer.

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But what you want to be doing again is evaluate the pain.

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So, all right, marketing is pretty painful and I have a direct correlation with how much you can make.

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Now, the sample gave me an idea.

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On average, I get $30 per customer that I get you in.

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I didn't strike out much to get you 10 guys

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and then you start looking at what you can add with that value added.

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You did the sample.

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It made sense.

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It's cool.

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It works.

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What I want you to do now is find me a way to get a thousand people in

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because that will give you something worth 30 grand because what

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that allows you to do is tie your offer to the outcome.

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So you see what that would look like.

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And then you can say, hey, we're going to run a marketing campaign for you and make your 30 grand.

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And then when you ask your price, it makes sense because it's tied to this one.

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Then what you need to do if you want to make a good offer that makes people feel stupid, saying no to, you want to follow the three P framework.

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The first one is pain.

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Of course, you want to focus on the pain.

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So for the restaurant that is struggling with the marketing, we're going to squeeze on how bad the situation is.

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Imagine you stop getting marketing, you just rely on Instagram or your post don't even look good.

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What are you going to do if you stop getting clients in the door?

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Also going to be paying the waiters

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and they're also going to leave their job and you're going to lose all of that money.

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See how painful that is.

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I just switched the offer and made it sound so painful and the situation sounds so bad.

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They throw any amount of money.

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So now I mentioned the pain.

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That is what I'm going to be focusing on is them losing money because they can't have good marketing.

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That's the pain.

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Now, the second thing I'm going to focus on is the path to solving that pain.

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I'm going to help you solve this big pain by running ads, by putting flyers, by running your content on your behalf.

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And here is the only time you're a little bit allowed

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to talk about the process to make it a little bit more believable.

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Say a few things you're going to do and then focus on the third P that is the most important one, which is proof.

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Everyone needs proof before buying anything.

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And for proof, there are two ways you can do it.

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If you're a beginner, you don't have any case studies, you need to give a guarantee.

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That could be the classical one.

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I get you extreme outcome or you don't pay.

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That just makes them feel more comfortable but that's still not enough for most cases, which is why most of the time you need to try

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and get your first client as soon as possible to get your first review

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and then use case studies because case studies are the easiest way to get more clients.

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You're just showing people, hey, you see this guy, he's just like you and I helped him solve this problem.

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You have the exact same problem and I just solved it for him.

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I can solve it for you too.

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That is insanely believable.

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And if you are a crack, you can do case studies plus guarantee.

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It's a three-step framework.

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I'm going to add the last one which is last p

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which is pricing

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and what you want to have with your pricing is to

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have it also be a no-brainer you want to be as far as possible from what you're making them

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and a good one is a 10 to 1 ratio

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so you just look at what you're going to make them

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and you divide this by 10 and that's how much you're going to charge

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so for the previous guy the marketing campaign

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if you're making them 30 grand you're just going to have to charge three grand

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and then to scale you just find similar guys

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that are just like him that could lose money

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if they don't get clients and you just go

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and you show them how you fix it for this one

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and you sell them the same thing

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and then maybe you're gonna make 50 grand

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or 100 grand to the different business and you can increase your prices

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and so on and so forth now last pro tip

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if you're really a hungry guy

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and you want to charge more money you have a way

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to have a five to one three to one ratio by doing your service in a better way

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and doing it faster that sometimes allows you to charge more money

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because you can deliver to premium clients who value time more than money.

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But that's some extra stuff we'll talk about later on.

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What you need to understand here is that you want to make no-brainer offer to people by focusing on their pains, focusing on how you're going to solve them and what happens when you solve them,

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then showing proof that you can do it by either putting a guarantee on it

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or showing you've done it for people before or doing both.

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And lastly, charging a fraction of the price to make it a no-brainer and showing them again, you're understanding them by showing them, yeah, I understand, I'm gonna make you 30 grand

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but the one wants to pay 30 grand for marketing campaign

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so i'm just gonna charge three grand

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and we're gonna have both a fair equation sounds good to you easy done

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so now i'm going to sell you my calls

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and i'm gonna do so by applying everything i told you in this video

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and you're gonna see the offer is a no-brainer why people spend money well they're spending either

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because they're in pain because they want to get something convenient

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or because they want to get status i care about making as much money as possible

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so i'll focus on the pain i'm gonna help you make five grand a month within 90 days.

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So I focus on the outcome.

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You're watching this video.

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So I already done my job helping you find me.

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I already saw where people are spending money online.

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They are buying courses.

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I already saw most of the courses.

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So I made a good course and now I'm sending it to you.

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Now, the last one is how to take their money.

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I'm going to see what your pain is, how painful it is, and then create a no-brainer offer.

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So if you currently can't make money online, you're tired of your nine to five, you want to quit your job and you want to work remotely, be your own boss and make 10k a month, me and my team can help you.

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We helped over 200 Muslims start their own business, alhamdulillah, some of which made $48,000 in two months, for the £2,000, 9.5k revenue in his first month,

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8k profit in six weeks, and all these other crazy results, if that's something that sounds good to you, you can apply with a link in the bio and someone will get in touch if you qualify.

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See how I just sold you a program and that sounds like a no-brainer.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “How to Make Money So Fast It Feels Haram”. This video has 293 sentences and 3873 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:00. The speaker talks fast, about 242 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 91% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
brainer noun	/bɹeɪ.nə(ɹ)/	someone with a certain type of brain
locate verb	/ˈloʊˌkeɪt/	To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
alhamdulillah	/alˌhamduːlɪˈlɑː/	Praise be to God; thank God.
outreach noun	/ˈaʊtɹiːtʃ/	The act of reaching out.
evaluate verb	/ɪˈvaljʊeɪt/	To draw conclusions from examining; to assess; to appraise.
believable adjective	/bɪˈliːvəbl̩/	Capable of being believed; credible.
eyeball noun	/ˈaɪ.bɔl/	The ball of the eye.
flyer noun	/ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/	That which flies, as a bird or insect.
lastly adverb	/ˈlæstli/	Used to mark the beginning of the last in a list of items or propositions.
buck noun	/ˈbʌk/	A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo.
airline noun	/ˈɛɹˌlaɪn/	A company that flies airplanes to transport people and goods.
fixing noun	/ˈfɪksɪŋ/	The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
categorize verb	/ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/	To assign a category; to divide into classes.
copywriter noun	/ˈkɑːpiˌɹaɪtɚ/	A person who writes advertising copy (the text used in advertisements).
insanely adverb	/ɪnˈseɪnli/	In an insane manner; not sanely.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
sit down verb		To assume a sitting position from a standing position.
figure out verb		To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
go ahead verb	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	To proceed with; to begin.
have over verb		To host (a visiting guest) at one's house.
mess up verb		To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
set up verb	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	To make ready for use.
strike out verb		To lash out; to strike or hit at someone or something, particularly something in arm's length of the striker and at or near the level of the striker's head.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I'm gonna talk about it in a minute.
It's called open your eyes.
I'm giving you a cheat code.
Did you like the outcome that this thing gave you?
You can't really drive to people's house.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be fixed · are just based · be done
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	Alhamdulillah, which is · life, which is · people who are
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have bought · have not bought · you've done

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 125 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: inshallah /ˌɪnˈʃɑ.lə/, correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, fraction /ˈfɹæk.ʃən/, equation /ɪˈkweɪ.ʒən/
Long words — get the stress right: alhamdulillah /alˌhamduːlɪˈlɑː/, categorize /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/, copywriter /ˈkɑːpiˌɹaɪtɚ/, correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, applicable /əˈplɪk.ə.bəl/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like brainer, locate, alhamdulillah.

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